About the Book: Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, From Revolution
to Autocracy
A fresh, unexpected, and revealing portrait of Russia ANNE APPLEBAUM, Pulitzer
Prize-winning author of Gulag and Red Famine A century of Russian history told
through the women who lived it, shaped it, and survived it NADYA TOLOKONNIKOVA,
founder of Pussy Riot Award-winning journalist Julia Ioffe tells the story of
modern Russia through the history of its women, from revolution to utopia to
autocracy. In 1990, seven-year-old Julia Ioffe and her family fled the Soviet
Union. Nearly twenty years later, Ioffe returned to Moscow—only to discover just
how much Russian society had changed while